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      <pre class="programlisting">#include &lt;db.h&gt;

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         The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV-&gt;memp_sync()</code> method flushes modified pages in the cache to
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         Pages in the cache that cannot be immediately written back to disk (for
         example, pages that are currently in use by another thread of control)
         are waited for and written to disk as soon as it is possible to do so.
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         The <code class="methodname">DB_ENV-&gt;memp_sync()</code> <span>
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                          The purpose of the <span class="bold"><strong>lsn</strong></span> parameter is
                          to enable a transaction manager to ensure, as part of a checkpoint,
                          that all pages modified by a certain time have been written to disk.  
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